Can Android Devices Be as Secure or Better Than Apple Devices?
Security on mobile devices is important for keeping your data safe. This may be personal data or business data, but whatever is stored on your device will need protecting. From a physical point of view, both Android and iOS offer options including biometrics and passcodes to prevent unauthorized access, making either operating system secure. When […]
Enterprise App Store: The Foundation of Safe, Secure, & Robust Enterprise Mobility Strategies
Your business needs its own app store. Period. We generally do not give much thought to app stores. Well, what’s there to think about – you might wonder. If you have an Android device, you use Google Play, and if you have an iOS device, you use App Store, right? Sure, that’s how most of […]
How to Manage the Most Vulnerable Aspect of Enterprise Security: People
IT must consider the cybersecurity risk posed by the human element in their enterprise security framework. The number of data breach incidents occurring on account of human error is on the rise. The sources of human error include bad habits, low awareness of security threats, and the increasing sophistication of the social engineering attacks. Bulk […]
Soon, The Most Understanding Presence in Your Life Will be AI
Here’s some good news for today – robots are not coming. The bad news? They are already here! However, it’s too soon to predict whether a robot invasion is going to happen in the future. If it does, then our chances of survival are, well, not so good. The reason is simple – artificial intelligence […]
Data Sharing & Data Harvesting is Getting Out of Control: 4 Things You Can Do to Protect Your Enterprise Data
Researchers at the Department of Computer Science, University of Oxford studied over 1 million Android users to find that over 90% of the apps on Google Play Store shared all the data with Google. In fact, 1 in every 5 of these apps shares data with 20+ third parties. And, your data wields power! The […]
4 Essentials of a Secure Wireless Workforce
The rising incidences of corporate hacking worldwide have led to a growing realization among business leaders of how vulnerable their digital infrastructure is. Cyber threats can originate from a variety of sources, including lone wolf hackers and foreign government-sponsored groups. Protecting corporate secrets and intellectual property requires a robust security system, which includes not only […]
The Future of Mobility: Mobile Security & IoT
According to some sources, there will be 34 billion devices connected to the internet by 2020, up from 10 billion in 2015. IoT devices will account for 24 billion of that total, while traditional computing devices (e.g. smartphones, tablets, your standard-issue Apple Watch 3, etc.) will comprise of 10 billion. Why? The emerging IoT market […]
Mobile Security & Corporate Governance
As we have discussed before, managing a company’s mobility lifecycle requires a certain investment. It usually pays off. While there are many benefits you can exploit from your EMM investment, the most compelling benefit is data security. Distributing a coherent and consistent set of practices across devices, carriers, platforms, and data sources can make the […]
COPE Co-dependency: a Bad Thing?
The more employees rely on a robust mobile infrastructure, the less they can tolerate going without their smartphone if it’s damaged or lost. Who can blame them? If a mobile device can allow them to maximize their work output when they are on the road or working from home, why would any employee want to […]